RT Article
T1 Gerhard von Rad's Struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament
JF The betrayal of the humanities
SP 154
OP 204
A1 Levinson, Bernard M. 1952-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1830141449
AB From 1933 through 1945, the Hebrew Bible was under attack in Nazi Germany. As both the universities and the Protestant Church sought to align themselves with Nazi ideology, the entire notion that Christianity had any connection to Judaism was denied, and the historic tradition of “Old Testament” studies was compromised. L. provides an illuminating case study of Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971), one of the enduring giants of German Protestant biblical scholarship. Von Rad began his academic career at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in 1934, a scant year after the Nazis rose to power. His university actively sought to position itself as the exemplary National Socialist university. Levinson shows how von Rad struggled against the Nazification of the curriculum by transforming biblical law into sermons preached orally by Levitical priests. L. examines the methodological and ethical difficulties of this approach.  Extensive focus on the social and historical location of biblical scholarship.
SN 9780253060792
K1 National Socialism
K1 Deuteronomy
K1 University History
K1 Biblical Law
K1 Jewish Studies
K1 history of scholarship
K1 Exegese
K1 Bibel. Altes Testament
K1 Bibel. Pentateuch
K1 Bibel. Deuteronomium
K1 Antisemitismus
K1 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
K1 Deutsche Christen
K1 Drittes Reich
K1 Nationalsozialismus
K1 Kollaboration
K1 Geschichte 1933-1945
K1 von Rad, Gerhard (1901-1971)
K1 Gattungsgeschichte
K1 Evangelische Theologie
K1 Judaistik
K1 Grundmann, Walter
K1 5. Mose
K1 Deut 5-11
K1 Deut 12-26
K1 Chronicles
K1 1.-2. Chronik